1. K-5 Reading Informational Text Kelly Clark CKEC 3-28-13

2. Purpose: After the presentation and introduction to the materials you CAN :  Explore tools and resources to add to your teaching toolbox for informative text structure  Learn three strategies for teaching students to improve comprehension  Focus on the intentional and explicit teaching of informational text structures  Practice identifying informative text structure in exemplar texts

3. Center on Instruction  Informational text structure K-5  Full module online http://www.centeroninstruction.org http://www.centeroninstruction.org  55 minute PowerPoint  Handouts  Resources  Another complete module for 6-12

4. Module overview

5. To summarize: Direct explicit instruction in text structure facilitates comprehension in any age student.

6. Why Informative?  At K-5 children had already had more direct and indirect exposure to the narrative structure.  The increased rigor and shifts in the ELA standards place an emphasis on informative AND narrative writing- understanding structure in ANY text improves comprehension.

7. Module overview

8. Intentional – Explicit Instruction  Informative writing has 5 basic structures:  Problem and Solution  Description  Compare and Contrast  Chronology/Sequence  Cause and Effect Teach each structure and then next in the instructional sequence, show how several forms can be present in one piece of text. These informative text structure templates from the module have the structure definition, signal words, comprehension questions and possible graphic organizers to use.